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Post by Flint Ironstone on Jan 6, 2017 10:46:47 GMT -6
This all started as a simple quest to discover the strange disturbance I felt. Now we find ourselves with this group inside a town that has a whole host of problems. and yet there is this strange presence I can feel but is just beyond my grasp of Identifying it and now the voice wants me to find the tower of Knowledge. which in itself is no small feat as we need phenix feather to summon a ship. I have a dreadful suspicion that this all has something to do with this strange dragon scale Alandia found. The one called Kalvash seems willing to assist me with this strange quest I have been asked to complete. So Kalvash used a book to open a door to a portal. I walked through that door and before me was shimmery mirror, my father always warned never place your hand in something that doesn't feel right so I levitated that dragon scale and sent it through the portal first, after all momma didn't raise a fool. when I lost contact with the Scale I had no choice I stretched out my arm pushing my hand through the portal and felt an object grasping it I pulled my arm out and to my amazement I was holding a smooth black stone with a consciousness inside it. Then a familiar voice came from behind me requesting me to step aside. as I did a looked up and saw a three headed figure walk through the portal. God I must be loosing my mind listening to and entity trapped with a stone, and the worst part of it all I have drug Alandia into this not that she would have allowed me to go on my own as I suggested before leaving home. With the stone in hand I turned and exited the doors and returned to the rest of the party. while standing there determining what our next move should be; a strange entity assaulted my mind and I collapsed and everything went black. Upon waking in a strange room in a not so comfortable bed I am finding it hard to focus something has been stolen from me, nothing of material value though. I will recover what was taken in time my gifts are dimensioned and I haven't felt this weak since I began my mental training.
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Post by Flint Ironstone on Jan 16, 2017 16:10:31 GMT -6
retiring to my room with Alandia to take stock on the latest events. As I sit here writing in my journal I can;'t help but feel wiped out it has been a long time since I drained my abilities to the point of exhaustion.However, this quaint little town we find ourselves in seems to have more trouble than a dwarf trying to reach an itch. After only finding more questions than answers I feel I must stay and root out the purpose of being drawn here so I decided to stay and assist Kelvash. Alandia doesn't seem to object in fact after the fight with the goblins and Goatmen... Really Goatmen who in this universe thought a goat headed man was a good idea. Anyway we survived no worse for wear, She seems a bit taken with the Druid. I guess that is to be expected he is of her kind and Ferrel doesn't seem to mind him. So now we have a few new arrivals to this rag tag band of misfit would be protectors a dwarf who claims to be a master chief, I hope he can cook more than mushrooms and a sell sword. I spent a good deal of time with her while Alandia was off in the woods. She seems nice enough and the chaos here will keep her busy if she decides to stay. After returning to the Inn it seems there is a quite fetching healer trying to contract with us for paid services, not sure how that's going to work out but kalvash seems take with her. I fear though the trip here has all but depleted my traveling money so using her services will be questionable to say the least. Speaking of funds, it seems I can make a few coins here with my flute even if the whole purpose of playing it is to block out the background noise and help calm my mind. .... Glances over at Alandia... my ever faithful companion she will not sleep until I do I better continue this later who knows what horror will befell this town.. ...closes the journal blows out the light and drifts off to sleep.
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Post by The Dungeon Master on Jan 16, 2017 18:19:39 GMT -6
Cool, nice. I look forward to more!
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Post by Flint Ironstone on Jan 22, 2017 8:36:48 GMT -6
sits a the table in the common tap room of the inn rubbing his neck as he sets pen to paper... well there I go again father warned me before I left on this little excursion to be mindful of Alandias feelings and with out thought I apparently walked all over them. but in my defense I am still getting use to the idea that her mind is closed off to me its unsettling and more than likely made things far worse than it should be. Well kavash wasn't happy when Alandia and I went hunting instead of go with him on his good will tour of the countryside to collect supplies. Alandia and I seemed to have worked out an understanding over much groveling from me I really didn't mean to hurt her or embarrass her in front of the tree hugger. Our hunt was a great success I am certain I had nothing to do with that but hey I did help carry the deer back to the INN. After we skinned and processed the deer Alandia and I headed back out to try and catch up with the others and see if they needed any additional help. Kavash seemed irritated that we were not with them since they ran into a war wagon full of dwarves. Not that there was much the two of us could have done anyway we are foot no horses so we would have been riding on the wagon and as I heard it Lay tay and Kavash road out to investigate the wagon by themselves. we then proceeded back to town and unloaded the cart which to my estimation made the days trip for them a great success. Kavash disappeared again as we were sitting in the inn there was a commotion at the wall. taking a deep breath we quickly gathered our wits and headed that way to discover a party of dwarves have come through one of the doors you know the doors that Kavash supposedly only has control of opening and closing. It was a few tense moments with these cloaked dwarves I forced the hood off the leader to get a look at him when he brandished a flail I recognized mercenary but really knew little of him. Apparently we are now letting any group push us around since after a few heated exchanges of words the dwarves just marched right past us to the tavern. ... Scratches his head and rubs his chin a little before continuing his journal... Well the bantering hostilities between us and the dwarves almost come to an agreed upon test of skill. basicly they were feeling randy and wanted to brawl so Beorn agreed to a fist fight that never really happened cause one of the dwarves interrupted and they all ran out of the Inn. Like motley fools we seem to be we chased after them back to the wall as a very large three headed demon emerged from one of the doors. This place is a hot bed of stupid if you ask me nobody in there right mind should be living here. Anyway the dwarves charge in along with Laytay Kavash the chef and our rough around the edges Lady warrior. Alandia and I kept our distance and assisted how we could Moji used his crossbow and well Peri stood behind us. still not quite sure about the coin healer but time will tell. after the fight was over which Kavash proclaimed it was an easy fight and was wondering where the real demons were. I think his Ego is going to get us killed eventually cause if the group of mercenaries were not there I doubt we would have survived. One good thing came about after the fight though this rag tag group we are with seemed to earn some respect with the troop of dwarves as the leader bought a round of drinks and promptly told us to not follow him again. low and behold the dust settled and the threat is gone the mayor shows his face the coward. Now he wants us to host a festival in the town to raise morale I would think slaying a horde of goblins goatmen demons and a few three headed demons would raise enough morale but Kavash thinks this is a good Idea. Beorn has agreed to brew and cook for the festival, we have learned that the man who brewed the ales for the town died on kavashs little sea voyage so instead of offering the house up for our use the pompous mayor informed us that we could buy it or rent it. Now this has me perplexed a great deal we as a group have selflessly defended this town and at every turn were easy compensation could be give the worm of a Mayor weasels his way out of it and Kavash goes right along with it. It is obvious the town needs us but we certainly don't need the town. I think I will have a talk with this mayor myself. .... Closes his journal and reflects on his next move....
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Post by Flint Ironstone on Jan 26, 2017 22:01:34 GMT -6
.... retires to his room removing his journal from the trunk he retrieved from the carpenters. Lighting a candle Sorrin sits down and reflects on the past few weeks... well we have been in this town now for several weeks and it seems we are growing roots. well it also seems our only means of keeping us in this nice room has ended since this asshat of a herald showed his face and now we can't hunt the surrounding woods to supply the inn with fresh meat. Well my flute will not keep us in the room and pay for the upkeep of our equipment. If something doesn't change in the near future we may need to return home and give up this little adventure. On a brighter note I took as bath with Alandia, it was an unexpected and well enjoyable experience. The festival is fast approaching not sure what alandia and I are doing but hey we met another one of kavashes friends named Aluna not sure what to make of her at this point just don't get in front of her with a dagger in her hand she is quite adept at throwing it. well I guess I am signing off after all showing off and exercising my abilities causes a stir with the people here they act like they never saw a flying fish before... Closes his journal strips out of his clothing and crawls into bed...
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Post by Flint Ironstone on Feb 5, 2017 9:59:38 GMT -6
.. feeling a bit weak still sitting in the flying squid Sorrin retrieves his journal and puts pen to parchment... Well we met with Atty yesterday morning and he was all for going to investigate this cave though he was quite poignant about not going alone I assured him Alandia and I were going. Since it was my Idea after all. Alandia and I came to the consensus that we would setup a camp with Atty in the woods or at least take our gear with us incase we couldn't find the cave after all we were relying on a tree hugger. So we three headed for the woods and searched for the cave and as suspected we could not find it at first and well Atty's abilities were quite drained we setup camp and got a fire going. Atty elected to sleep all night after all he needed to recover. Alandia took first watch with Ferral while I meditated and recovered the rest of my strength. I must have fell asleep cause Alandia woke me for watch and to tell me something was stalking our camp. I was quite relieved she didn't go and investigate it on her own. I immediately bolstered the fire and keeped watch with Ferral for the rest of the night. On hindsight I should have set torches out around the camps edge so they could have been lit to extend my vision and scare what ever was out there when they spontaneously ignited. father always said a unexpected simple trick could startle an opponent enough to give you the upper hand. The rising of the sun was a welcome sight this morning as these fall mornings can be a bit cold and well I prefer to see whats coming at us or watching us. Alandia investigate the edge of our camp and found small humanoid foot prints perhaps of a female persuasion but that is just speculation. Alandia headed off into the woods and followed the tracks, she was gone for a while upon her return she seemed a bit upset as she found a violent scene at another camp the three of us decide to investigate that camp before heading out to continue the search for the cave. Alandia showed us to the camp and came upon a gruesome scene of dismembered bodies with looks of horror locked on their faces. We investigated the scene and could not discern the exact method of death there was blood everywhere and Alandia found the same small tracks leading away from the camp. After collecting the daggers and the short sword Atty decided to ask for divine intervention and he communed with the thieves of the forest a family of raccoon, they seeme to convey that the cave is bad and dangerous. We decided to follow the the tracks and it led us the cave we stop 50 yrds or so from the cave and Ferral was agitated and afraid, we didn't proceed to the cave as my two companions were quite adamant about going back and not going to the cave. I am sure if I just headed in at least Alandia would have followed however I would not risk her for just my curiosity. We headed back into town and had to jump out of the way of a fast rider who didn't seem to pay attention to us, He was wearing a tabard with the symbols of a field of blue a gold castle, and 3 white flowers. Upon arriving back at town we started looking for kalvash. We found most of the group minus Kavash of course, after asking the group if they have seen kavash we found him across the field in the festival. We informed him of the murders in the woods he was aloof and unconcerned when people under his protection as he professes were slaughtered. Of course he said we will investigate it later which will yield nothing the longer we wait to investigate. Dropping this line of discussion cause as usual he doesn't listen as he thinks he is all knowing because he is several hundred years old and does as he pleases how he has lived as along is quite astonishing really. No longer wishing to deal with kavash at this time I headed over to the knife throwing to release some pent of aggravation as I do my best to not show it. at the contest more aggravations the viewed my throwing knife as an unfair advantage so I had to use an unbalanced dagger putting me at a greater disadvantage and could barely hit my mark. After failing at this contest I heard the call for the archery contest and decided to join this contest. after several volleys of arrows I somehow managed to win the cow cause kavash wasn't allowed to win as he is the Reeve. Not sure what I am going to do with a cow I think I can sell it for coin. Returning to Bourns beer stand I volunteered to help so that Boyrn could compete in the strong man competition. Selling a few ales for him he apparently lost the competition and brought back the winner to drink as they approached I felt as if a leach attached itself to me and was draining my strength all I could think of was to get away from the area I grabbed Alandia as it was getting worse by the second and headed away as Aluna came running telling me to get away and go back to the inn and babbled something about stones Kavash has been talking about. Alandia and I rushed to the Flying squid.
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Post by Flint Ironstone on Feb 19, 2017 7:41:58 GMT -6
::quietly sitting at the small table I put Quill to parchment:; Well upon are arrival back at the squid as I now call it. The Effects of that stone seems to have passed. as I gathered my strength back Peri started in on questions of prodding Atty about love. I must have made a comment out loud again cause she turned her attention to me and asked me if I believed in true love. With out thinking much my answer was simple or at least I thought it to be simple. I don't believe in love at first sight. Well I don't, there are those who believe in it, but what they are actually feeling is Lust. Then Peri twisted my answer into I don't believe in true love because I said I haven't found it yet. Well how can someone know that they found true love when the notion of true love must be cultivated and nurtured between two people so that a garden of memories can flower and grow drawing the couple together. only then can you find true love and most people will not even realize what true love is until they have spent a life time together and can sit back, reflect upon their life together and say he or she is my soul and the path we walked was our own forged together and would do anything to have more time with them. I hope Alandia didn't take my short answer to Peri wrong I don't like opening up to people we barely know let alone in a tap room of a seedy inn in a town we should have moved on from. After the rest of the group arrived at the Squid I realized I left my cow in all the excitement. Alandia and kalvash went out to find it after some time had passed I feared it was lost and there went any chances of recouping some of our expenses. However, to my surprise they showed up with the cow and I sold it to Marcus the nitwit of the Inn for 13 gold. I will not bore you with the details of the evening other than to say we came to the conclusion that the bodies in the woods and the cave should be investigated. Funny thing is I guess it had to be kalvashes Idea before it was going to happen. So we headed out to the campsite as I suspected any real evidence that we might have found the day before was destroyed as scavengers have already started gnawing on the bodies. So we headed to the cave surfise to say we found a nothing of interest in the cave except some weapon black though I wasn't forth coming as to knowing what the stuff was and we also found a scrap of cloth Atty went back to check on the animals witch surprised me since Moji seems more concerned with animals than any dwarf I know and well it is his jackass. Atty quickly returned to inform us that he saw two figures out there and well the group gave chase. Alandia started tracking and discovered the same tracks as before leading off into the woods from the cave, only concerning fact was there was only one set of prints and well Atty clearly saw two figures. The hair on the back of my neck stood up on end when Alandia lost the set of tracks or more to the point they just stopped. Had we just walked blindly into a trap? We started to retreat when a soft female voice requested us not to and then stepped out from behind a tree. It was the elven woman I saw get off the ship a few days ago not that the Reeve kalvash paid any attention to anything that wasn't his Idea but that is my opinion only I am sure he would have an arguement ready as to how that isn't so. The strange thing is this Elf maiden seems to know Kalvash, I know they are speaking in elvish I just can't quite grasp what they are saying since it is clearly not the dialect of the Emerald elves, but kalvash is surprised and she isn't to happy by the tone of the conversation. I would surmise that the conversation didn't improve much when the second elf showed himself, he is going to have to show me his hiding trick if we get the chance to spend time with these two. Well they finally stop being rude and treating us like mushrooms when they start talking in common though the conversation doesn't improve much. The main points taken is that she is kalvashes Betrothed that he abandoned when their lands fell to the sword rulers. I will have to press the matter about what these sword rulers are that the group I am with seem to only speak of in vague whispers; but what I have gathered over the past few weeks and piecing it together is that they are a group of zealots that revere law above all else and and infraction of the law that they say is the law is punishable by death. would have been nice to know this in the beginning as these two elves say the armies of the sword rulers are on their way here. I jumped head of myself there and I will come back to it in a moment. The Pirate stronghold was brought up by her and that it was destroyed by the sword rulers. kalvash and her argued a bit when the count was brought up his betrothed insisted that the count was on our side and well they cut off any chances to get any information from them as they took off running for the counts manor. We quickly regrouped at the wagon and the animals to head to the counts manor. That Idea was cut short when a roar was heard and a huge bear came crashing out of the forest on its hind legs, wound and looking mad as hell. Well with it standing at least 20 feet tall I wasn't taking any chances and well I guess it was time to reveal some of my hidden talents I am sure this will startle some. Before the bear could reach us I reached out with my mind and well erased it from existence and the look from Alandia was exactly as I expected. but there was really no time as mansize racoons were charging with the bear to attack us. they were quickly dispatched and we proceeded to the counts manor not that it did much good it was a blaze and bodies where everywhere. we dismounted and started asses the situation and help any that might still be alive when a man stepped out of that inferno raised his arm with some sigil in his hand and well three members of our group rose off the ground and where held there like they were being crucified he was spouting of about smiting so I will surmise he was a cleric of the sword rulers as I was later informed of. We attempted to defend our strickened members and all of our attacks just seemed to evaporate around him. I am almost sure I saw him smirk as we were no threat to him and he calmly turned walking back into the blazing fire. Our companions fell back to the ground and the attack was over. We found one still alive and Atty attended to him the tree hugger saved him. i did something then that my father would have and still might chastise me for if he reads my journal I burned my remaining abilities to help bury the dead, in hindsight a bad Idea. we headed back to town after searching the grounds. and this is why I will get chastised by my father when he reads this we were stopped on the road by a rambling mad man demanding retribution for the death of the giant bear. Apparently Atty is a member of this order of crazy. I took responsibility for killing the bear hey piss on the the idiot of the woods he wasn't there besides who in there right mind listens to stones and thinks they are talking to him and its not the voices in his own head people and there gods another tangent topic for later. So back to the lunatic on the road he demanded Atty beat my ass for killing the bear so instead of provoking the lunatic in the road to having a heart attack and the fact that I left myself defenseless from burring the bodies I decided to let atty hit me a couple of times until the old coot opened his mouth again and I asked him if he was satisfied and he proclaimed very loudly that he was at which time I ended this little show and well he got really pissed off when I used his own words against him. He threw up his middle finger and stomped off. So we returned to town and all went to the mayors house with the wounded that we found in the farmers house. Aluna quickly made herself disappear when some well dressed people appeared. Alandia and I headed for the Squid with Peri, Leytay and Atty. after everyone returned to the squid it seems Aluna, Moji and kalvash stepped outside to obviously keep information from us again which seems to be peri's sentiment as well as the rest of the group. Alluna and Moji returned without kavash. I had enough of it and look at the two of them and ask what it was about. they seemed reluctant to discuss it in the tap room and retired to Peri and Alunas room in which they informed us of who the sword rulers were and who the to nobles were at the mayor's house. after Digesting this the group seemed to agree that staying here was futile and that if we had this information sooner we would have left sooner, maybe this is what Kalvash feared all along that we would abandon his lost cause after we all returned to the tap room and well the drinking started.
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Post by The Dungeon Master on Feb 19, 2017 18:08:20 GMT -6
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Post by Flint Ironstone on Mar 10, 2017 7:20:34 GMT -6
home again it has been a really fucked up past couple of days at whirlwind speeds. where should I start first and foremost a quick summary since its been a while since I had time to write or anything to write in. After our nite of drinking we found ourselves in the tap room of the squid discussing how we are getting out of this town as certain doom was or is heading for this town. the plan was set all but Kelvash was going he has a strange sense of honor to this town. so the plan was to leave at first light. Kelvash secured a horse for us which was surprising that he was able to the sphincter of this town is so tight a fart couldn't pass through it. well we were set then Kelvash came into the squid with a new plan for us to take a ship as it would shave days off our trip. but I digress a little because at some point, mind you this is all fussy as to the exact sequence of events but I believe I left out a very stupid but important fact Aluna's uncle and his bitch of a side kick had a chat with us before all of this and well we refused and they left. at some point that Bitch I mentioned came back and threw a pouch in front of me and said something before prancing her tart little ass back out. Well the pouch held several little daggers and everyone took one with the thought of if we run into the sword Rulers they may just save our lives, well that was the dumbest shit of an idea ever. You see we apparently forgot we had them with us when the plan changed and we decided on taking the boat because they fucked us hard and fast. but I will get to that in a minute. So we headed to the docks to negotiate passage which we did everything was fine except we would be staying in town for three more days most of the group split up per usual. However, Alunas uncle showed up on the ship and this all gets really confusing but we end up leaving at first light instead of three days from now. Meanwhile we decided to stay on the beach which was actually quite pleasant until that crack pot lunatic came storming down the beach demanding our animals well he bewitched them and several of them were led off that night we all crashed out on the sand and morning came to quickly. Low and behold that crazy SOB came in the night and stole the rest of the animals.kelvash Came down to say goodbye we informed him of the magical thievery and what do my eyes see that fucktard from the woods coming back down the beach with our animals. Last time I checked horse thieving was a hanging offense or at least it should be here. So some how we manage to get everything on board the ship and settled in our cabins, It looks as if we are finally getting away from this cursed hell hole of a town. the captain called everyone out onto the deck to tell us the rules of the ship as we pulled out of port. When out on the horizon there be ships. remember the fucking mini daggers yeah well we didn't as the ship was being boarded and searched they found them in Alunas cabin and well the rest of the searches turned up all of them I tried to save alandia and I as they went to search our room but as my father always said stress with is a whore to a psion she will screw you in the most inconvenient ways. You seem I called on my abilities to change the shape of the daggers in my pack and well it just didn't happen so we all were rounded up and taken to the other ship and caged. To make a long story shorted that is how that Bitch fucked us. as I don't know what happen up on the deck but we sunk in those cages as the ships were destroyed. a fleeting thought occurred to me that I could easily saved myself but not Alandia and well the thought of not having her with me gave me pause as life would not be tolerable with out her, so I sank with the cages and her. then I opened my eyes and we all were on the ship of the phenix yep dead well I guess I get to go to the tower no well you would think that after the last story of the ship but no cant be that easy I guess we forgot how to time warp as we ended up at a black castle. You know what I am just plan tired here is the ending of this entry we ended up in Castle X with some new guy and La Tay is gone Alandia and I head to her cottage and as expected the tree hugger joined us.
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